“Spark triggered explosion at ammo factory near Bulgaria's Kostenets”, 8 August 2014

A spark triggered the explosion at the TEREM ammunition plant in Kostenets, according to caretaker Defense Minister Velizar Shalamanov…Nikolay Nikolov, head of Bulgaria's fire safety and civil protection department, announced…that a spark between two ammunition disposal processes had landed on sacks of TNT, triggering a blast. An explosion at the state-owned ammunition disposal facility…left ten people injured, including five men and five women, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio. Nikolov explained that the women had been near windows at the time of the blast and had mostly suffered cuts from the pieces of glass…[T]he blast wave had broken the windows of nearby houses…A team of prosecutors, investigators and military police officers are to examine the site of the incident as part of an in-depth probe.